Performance Comparison of Three Routing Protocols for Ad Hoc Networks

Abstract

Many routing protocols for ad hoc networks have been proposed to date. Among them, STAR is a representative table-driven protocol, while AODV and DSR are two representative on-demand protocols. This paper analyzes these three protocols using the GloMoSim simulation environment. The scenarios used in the simulation experiments take into account a variety of environmental factors that influence protocol performance. The performance of the protocols is compared in terms of their control overhead, amount of data delivered, and average latency in packet delivery. The simulation results show that STAR achieves better overall performance than AODV and DSR in sparsely connected networks. For the case of densely connected networks, AODV performs better in terms of data delivery, while STAR performs much better in terms of control overhead. The study also addresses the question of how accurate a simulator could be regarded for presenting the characteristics of the routing protocols and for comparison purposes.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2001
Accession Number
ADA461699

Entities

People

  • Hong Jiang
  • J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves

Organizations

  • University of California, Santa Cruz

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter WMD
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Ad Hoc Networks
  • Computer Communications
  • Computer Networks
  • Computers
  • Engineering
  • Mesh Networks
  • Mobile Devices
  • Mobility
  • Network Protocols
  • Networks
  • Routing Protocols
  • Simulations
  • Simulators
  • Topology
  • Wireless Communications
  • Wireless Networks

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computer Networking